Fact is, computer scientists sometimes just like to play with technology. Such was Anne Elster’s motivation when she resolved several years ago to start working on real-time snow simulations. It’s probably important to point out that Elster, who was talking about her work at the GPU Technology Conference, is an associate professor at the Norwegian… Read More
These are great days for astronomers, who have access to increasingly powerful telescopes that generate unprecedented amounts of data. But with all that data come challenges. In particular, a new generation of software-based telescopes—most notably the huge Low Frequency Array, or LOFAR, built by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy—are serving notice that more powerful… Read More
Trying to determine the origins and fate of the universe is important work with far-reaching implications. But cosmologists, unlike their counterparts in other scientific fields, can’t do hands-on experiments to test their hypotheses. “The only way we can check our theories is through numerological simulations,” Claudio Gheller, a computational scientist at the Swiss National Supercomputing… Read More
Art and science. Design and technology. Style and substance. These aren’t competing ideas, Ralph Gilles, Chrysler’s senior VP for product design, explained in his keynote at our GPU Technology Conference, focusing on how new technology has accelerated automotive design. Starting with the Chrysler 300 – a much-acclaimed sedan introduced in 2003 – Gilles has led… Read More
Bio-inspired vision systems. High-performance finance analytics. Automatic image correction. These are just a sampling of the breadth of innovation on display from the 15 startups participating in the GPU Technology Conference’s Emerging Companies Summit. Five of the most promising companies bagged “One to Watch” awards, splitting a pot of $85,000 worth of prizes, at a… Read More
Buffering has long been the scourge of streamed video. But a Portland, Oregon-based company at the center of the video-processing industry is working with GPUs to help relegate it to a thing of the past. By taking advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs, Elemental Technologies has helped Comcast, HBO, and a variety of… Read More
Latency is among the biggest challenges in computer-generated animation. Graphic artists have long been able to make quick changes to hair, clothes, plants and other details, but they’ve generally had to wait minutes—or longer—to see the finished result. But as GPU technology has matured, that excruciating wait-time has all but disappeared, Laurence Emms, a technical… Read More
A Honda scientist speaking at our annual GPU Technology Conference illustrated a vision of the future of driving that looked like a scene from ‘Minority Report.’ Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, of the Honda Research Institute, in Silicon Valley, showed early designs of augmented reality displays that seem to “paint” imagery on the driver’s windshield to aid navigation… Read More
Way, way back four years ago, while fleshing out designs for cars to be used in the movie Tron: Legacy, auto-futurist Daniel Simon would create vehicle concepts, and then leave them to be rendered overnight. When he’d arrive at his office the next morning only to find that the rendering software had crashed at 2:30am,… Read More
Stretch a strand of human DNA out to its full length and it’s two meters long. Yet all that material – and the information it carries – gets balled up inside the nucleus of a single human cell. That’s more than a just remarkable feat of biological origami, explained Erez Lieberman-Aiden in a keynote speech… Read More
Few strive to combine the contrasting ideals of art and perfection as diamond cutters do. But up until the 1990s, the focus on creativity and detail kept diamond processing at a snail’s pace, with the average diamond cutter able to produce just five finished pieces each day. Then, cutters began using CPUs to assess diamonds… Read More
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